David Miller and his wife didn’t receive 38 Dallas Morning News deliveries, but never had proof they were being stolen.

Until now.

He installed security cameras that captured two videos of a man he doesn’t recognize casually stealing newspapers off the porch of his DeSoto home on New Year’s Eve and this morning, then sent them to Dave Lieber and me at the Watchdog desk.

“Your circulation department is always kind enough to bring us a paper by mid morning,” he wrote in an email to The Watchdog. “We love your paper.”

Dallas Morning News circulation supervisors are aware of the situation, and the newspaper carrier even tried to help by throwing the papers closer to the front door. But that didn’t deter the newsy thief.

“He also steals the papers from two houses on Townsend; all in rotation; one a day,” Miller explained. “We seem to be in the Tuesday rotation. So ya'll have lost over 100 papers in our neighborhood alone.”

An increase in crime has pushed the couple to pack up and head east out of Dallas County.

“We loved our DeSoto home of 27 years,” he wrote. “Three years ago we were broken into and lost $22,000 worth of our favorite things. Now this. My wife won't even walk in the neighborhood anymore.”

Police records show four 2013 reports on Gracelane Drive. One is the report Miller made for a stolen paper. The second report was made today.

“I now sleep with my cell phone beside me as it chimes when the motion detector is triggered.”